Sentences with phrase «percent of the student»

In 1996, says Klawe, female students made up 20 percent of the student body.

Even so, parents and students alike are optimistic: 64 percent of parents surveyed expect that their children will be able to find a job after graduation — though not necessarily one in their field — within six months, and 67 percent of students agreed.

Hispanic students make up about 20 percent of the student body, up from five percent.

In fact, about 90 percent of student loans these days are provided by the federal government.

The network of coding schools found recently that 40 percent of students taking classes offered through the consumer side of the business were having class costs reimbursed by their employers.

Some 73 percent of students offered up a humblebrag when asked to describe a weakness.

In fact, just 9 percent of students studying business claim they received such support, which is half the rate of kids who took up the arts and humanities.

Payment processing issues accounted for 17 percent of all student loan complaints the CFPB received during the second quarter of 2016 — second only to complaints about income - driven repayment plans, according to an October report.

They'll also attempt to solve a problem that plagues most MOOC providers: the fact that only 10 percent of students actually complete a course.

The arrangement is meant to last eight years; during that time, Shipp will take 30 percent of his students» speaking fees in return for assistance with business strategy, marketing, branding, product - line extensions, and — of course — the content and delivery of their presentations.

Nearly 80 percent of students are employed in their field one year after graduation and 13 percent of graduates start their own companies in a related field.

In Germany, 97 percent of students graduate from high school, but only a third of these students go on to college.

According to the Wall Street Journal, approximately 13 percent of student loan debt in the repayment stage is in default.

About 3 percent of students plan to use student loan money to fund vacations and another 3 percent will spend it on alcohol or drugs.

The term «applicable educational institution» refers to an educational institution which a) had at least 500 students during the preceding taxable year; b) the aggregate fair market value of the assets of which at the end of the preceding taxable year (other than those assets which are used directly in carrying out the institution's exempt purpose) is at least $ 500,000 per student of the institution; and c) more than 50 percent of the students are located in the United States.

Registered nurses who work at least 32 hours a week at a qualified facility can get 60 percent of their student loans paid in two years of employment.

According to a report by the Center for American Progress, «This seemingly minor paperwork issue trips up nearly 60 percent of student - loan borrowers [enrolled in IDR plans] and results in potentially dire consequences.

No wonder the CFPB reports that more than 40 percent of student loan borrowers leave school owing $ 20,000 or more.

Even at the graduate level, 75 percent of students needed a cosigner to take out private student loans.

The Catholic Education Service (CES) has been criticised by Muslim and secular leaders for choosing Judaism instead of Islam, given that the latter is the second largest religion in the UK after Christianity, and that Muslim children can form up to 90 percent of the student body in some Catholic schools in Britain.

Fifty - five percent of public school students are in schools in which over 90 percent of all students are white or minority.

Over the past three decades, the number of homeschooled children has grown by at least 7 percent a year» the number may now exceed the number attending charter schools» and between 6 and 12 percent of all students are educated at home at some point between kindergarten and twelfth grade.

On the other hand, more than 90 percent of the students in parochial schools, drawn from the same underclass population, go on to college or other advanced training.

From teaching that course for about twenty years at Oregon State, I know that roughly twenty percent of the students who sign up for it, come from a conservative Christian background.

The Association of Theological Schools» accreditation allows member schools to admit up to 10 percent of their students without a college degree, and many schools do so.

The fact is 12 percent of students in NYC are Muslim and have to choose between missing school, or not celebrating their holidays.

Although we use «linguistic sweeteners and semantic somersaults» and call these schools «diverse,» the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (now at UCLA) has documented that more than 2 million students, including more than a quarter of black students in the Northeast and Midwest, attend schools in which 99 to 100 percent of the students are nonwhite.

Only 27 percent of students said they follow politics «most of the time,» and only 27 percent discuss politics at least three times a week.

With an estimated 80 percent of students today attending government - sponsored schools, this force alone is formidable.

One Catholic university, which had for years professed that it «does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, handicap, color, (or) religion» and «welcomes applications without distinction on the basis of race or religious beliefs,» discovered that Catholics had thereby declined from 70 percent to 59 percent of its student body in only ten years.

Ninety - five percent of students at the university are Catholic, he said.

Data from the Education Department's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System tells us now that fewer than 12 percent of students earning bachelor's degrees are graduating from humanities programs.

In fact, about 17 percent of students in Catholic schools in the United States are non-Catholic (more than 300,000 students), and inner - city black Protestants account for a high proportion of that group.

Ninety percent of the students in the parochial schools of the city — drawn from the same population — go on to college or technical training for a real job.

[4] About 46 percent of the students were enrolled in M.Div.

A Technomic study on college foodservice shows some of the unique challenges today's operators face: 49 percent of college and university students avoid some type of meat or animal products; more students are price - sensitive off - campus (58 percent) than on - campus (46 percent) and 54 percent of students say it's important to eat healthy and pay attention to nutrition.

The increase in breakfast service will begin during the 2017 - 18 school year in schools with more than 70 percent of students eligible for free and reduced - price meals.

That while they are only 17 percent of the public school population, they represent 35.6 percent of students who experienced corporal punishment, 37.4 percent of all students suspended and 37.9 percent of all students expelled.

It has no outdoor athletic fields or facilities on its campus, despite the fact that 65 percent of its student body participates in sports and competes at a highly competitive level.

The report offers a start contrast to the typical Chapel Hill student body: On average, approximately 4 percent of the student body are student - athletes and approximately 0.6 percent are football players.

Over 60 percent of the student body attended the game.

In Japan, 41 percent of students» time in math class was still spent on basic practice — churning through one problem after another — but 44 percent was devoted to more creative stuff: inventing new procedures or adapting familiar procedures to unfamiliar material.

The all - female surfing staff, many of whom are former champions in the sport, have a ridiculously high success rate: 99.9 percent of students make it up on their board in their first lesson.

Students in schools populated mostly by middle - class - and - above children were about equally likely to find themselves in a classroom with engaged and interesting instruction (47 percent of students) as in one with basic, repetitive instruction (53 percent of students).

Eighty - eight percent of the student population at WHEELS has a family income that falls below the federal cutoff for a free lunch, and 99 percent of them are Latino or African - American.

In the American classrooms, by contrast, 96 percent of students» time was spent on repetitive practice, and less than 1 percent was spent puzzling through new approaches.

While the school is a Catholic school, it is separate from the Archdiocese and is governed like any other independent private school so our kids will make their sacraments at Sacred Heart but have many classmates from outside their own religious tradition (around 30 percent of the student body is not Catholic).

Examining the district as a whole, 57 percent of students are meeting and exceeding in reading in 2012 - 13 compared to 51 percent of students in 2010 - 11.

The condition is common among African - Americans like Beckwith, as well as Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans — groups that make up 91 percent of students in the Chicago Public Schools.

Of that, less than 10 percent of those students chose the nutritionally denser meals, officials said.